A Compassionate And Discerning Exploration Of The Complex Relationship Between The Server, The Served, And The World They Lived In, Servants Opens A Window Onto British Society From The Edwardian Period To The Present. Preface -- The Symbolic Pantomime -- A Sort Of Silence And Embarrassment -- The Dainty Life -- A Seat In The Hall -- Centralising The Egg Yolks -- Popinjays And Mob Caps -- The Desire For Perfection -- Some Poor Girl's Got To Go Up And Down, Up And Down -- -- The Sacred Trust -- The Ideal Village -- Silent, Obsequious And Omnipresent -- Bowing And Scraping -- The Age Of Ambivalence -- Out Of A Cage -- Don't Think Your Life Will Be Any Different To Mine -- It Was Exploitation But It Worked -- Tall, Strong, Healthy And Keen To Work -- The Mechanical Maid -- Outer Show And Inner Life -- A Vast Machine That Has Forgotten How To Stop Working -- Bachelor Establishments Are Notoriously Comfortable -- The Question Of The Inner Life -- Do They Really Drink Out Of Their Saucers?' -- Of Alien Origin -- A New Jerusalem -- A New And Useful Life -- The Housewife Militant -- The Change : It Must Have Been Terrible For Them -- The Shape Of Things To Come -- We Don't Want Them Days Again' -- We've Moved To The Front -- I'd Never Done What I Liked -- Never In All My Life -- We Like It Because The Past Is Not So Worrying As The News -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index. Lucy Lethbridge. Originally Published Under The Title: Servants: A Downstairs View Of Twentieth-century Britain. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 353-368) And Index.